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Investigating Online Office Suites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-working-is-that-much-better-away-from-the-office dept.

jcatcw writes "Computerworld reviewed four online office suites — Ajax13, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, ThinkFree Online and Zoho Office Suite. None has all the applications and features of Microsoft Office, but if you're looking for the core office applications in an access-anywhere format, at least two were surprisingly sophisticated. The article weighs the ability to save files to a centralized server quite heavily in its ranking. The winner is ThinkFree Office because it provides the most sophisticated features and has the best Microsoft Office compatibility. Zoho's suite is the second choice."

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  1. Doesn't Matter by jkiol · · Score: 5, Funny

    I still prefer emacs *Awaits bashing from VI users*

    1. Re:Doesn't Matter by ruben.gutierrez · · Score: 2, Funny

      :s/\(.*\)emacs.*/\1vi/

  2. I'd read TFA but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I keep getting
    "500 Servlet Exception


    java.lang.NullPointerException "

    with the stack trace.

    How are you folks reading it? Oh wait, I forgot. This is /.!

  3. what about... by spoop · · Score: 3, Funny

    Virtudyne/Simdesk???? http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Best_of_2006_0x3a_ _The_Virtudyne_Saga.aspx

    --
    I blame geof's speakers.
  4. standalone/local by radarsat1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if these could be easily turned into standalone/local versions by bundling a customized web server and browser into an "application".

    Or maybe that would be a waste of time.